Men's day out

Cliff and Kadizzle worked together yesterday on the Waterfall Trail.  Normally we have a couple of women on the crew.  Left alone we were free to work at our pace and smell the flowers, but there are no flowers, because there is no rain.  Strangely more and more water is coming over the falls, and down the stream.  Water in the desert is such a puzzle.  A bone dry stream starts to run for apparently no reason.  It could only from the fact that there was a tiny drizzle about three weeks ago.  It is hard to imaging how slow it takes that little bit of water to work it's way down the stream.  If it does not rain soon the water will never make it down to the lake.  It will sink into the ground before it gets there.

Kadizzle has put so damn much work into the Waterfall Trail that if the universe does not provide a gushing stream a law suit is in order.  God will be charged with failure to rain, or Trump might be charged with successfully destroying the planet. 

So once more we sit here at 5:30 A.M. doing the update.  Checking to see what the Hoopleheads are up to and if they need to be chastised.  Checking for dolts in the Bismarck Tribune.  Yes, a dolt showed up today using the Bible to justify hating immigrants, and support Tumps lying agenda. A more pleasurable update is The New York Times.  No real zingers there today.  In the background NPR plays on the radio.  How the AZ Republicans can listen to it an remain in the Trump fog is a little hard to understand.  Ignoring reality has become normal.

We are on the verge of rain, if only it would come.  It is soon bound to be rattlesnake time.  By all measures we are in the country of snakes.  Strangely Kadizzle has only encountered one or two since he has been working this wilderness.  Snakes don't care for cold so that has been a salvation, but it is warming up.  What concerns Kadizzle is going out at night when it is warm.  Snakes like to hunt at night and of course they would be hard to see.  Stepping on a snake when you go out to empty yours could be a big problem.